Who's in the running for this year's Bafta TV Awards?

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Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan be  the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards 2021 astatine  Television Centre connected  June 06, 2021 successful  London, EnglandImage source, Getty Images

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Comedians Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan volition big the ceremonial astatine London's Royal Festival Hall

By Steven McIntosh

Entertainment reporter

Stars of the tiny surface are preparing for the Bafta TV Awards, which volition beryllium held successful London later.

This is Going to Hurt and The Responder lead the nominations, portion Daniel Radcliffe, Kate Winslet and Lesley Manville are up for acting prizes.

Comedians Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan volition big proceedings from London's Royal Festival Hall.

Lewis Capaldi and Jax Jones volition execute astatine the ceremony, which is broadcast connected BBC One from 20:00 BST.

The lawsuit follows the Bafta TV Craft Awards, which saw This is Going to Hurt and House of the Dragon instrumentality location 3 prizes each.

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Ben Whishaw successful nominated for his show successful the surface adaptation of This Is Going To Hurt

Ben Whishaw is up for champion histrion for playing a doc successful the adaptation of Adam Kay's best-selling memoir This is Going to Hurt.

He volition spell up against Martin Freeman, who is shortlisted for playing a constabulary serviceman successful his Liverpool-set play The Responder.

The astir caller bid of Happy Valley was broadcast excessively precocious to beryllium eligible for this year's ceremony, but its prima Sarah Lancashire is nominated for her show successful different series.

She is up for champion starring histrion for her portrayal of US TV cook Julia Child successful the HBO play Julia.

Radcliffe is nominated for champion antheral drama show for his portrayal of Weird Al Yankovic successful the biopic of the US philharmonic comedian.

Manville is recognised for her show successful James Graham's Sherwood, astir lingering divisions successful a Nottinghamshire mining colony pursuing the onslaught of the 1980s.

Winslet is nominated for I Am Ruth, successful which she played a parent progressively acrophobic astir her teenage daughter's depression.

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Sarah Lancashire is recognised for her portrayal of US TV cook Julia Child

Cillian Murphy, Imelda Staunton, Gary Oldman, Taron Egerton, Maxine Peake, Billie Piper and Vicky McClure are among the different acting nominees.

Some of the biggest TV hits of the twelvemonth tin beryllium recovered successful the planetary category, with nominations for Wednesday, The White Lotus, The Bear and Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

Joe Lycett vs Beckham: Got Your Back At Xmas - which saw the comedian criticise the erstwhile footballer for his links with Qatar - is nominated successful the features category.

Memorable moments

The nominations were announced successful March, with the shortlist for this year's memorable infinitesimal class pursuing successful April.

Nominees successful that class see the Derry Girls finale, Paddington gathering the Queen for her Platinum Jubilee, and Nick and Charlie's archetypal buss connected Netflix's Heartstopper.

The different TV highlights nominated for astir memorable infinitesimal are the last roundtable of the Traitors, Max being rescued from Vecna successful Stranger Things, and Sir Mo Farah revealing helium was illegally trafficked to the UK.

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Clara Amfo (left) and Michelle Visage volition pb the reddish carpet sum up of the ceremony

Broadcaster and historiographer Professor David Olusoga volition beryllium the recipient of this year's peculiar award, which recognises those who person made an outstanding publication to television.

The ceremonial volition unfastened with a show from DJ and shaper Jax Jones of his way Where Did You Go.

Later, Lewis Capaldi volition present the archetypal TV show of his fig 1 azygous Wish You The Best.

It follows the caller merchandise of Capaldi's feature-length euphony documentary How I'm Feeling Now.

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Lewis Capaldi volition execute his fig 1 azygous Wish You The Best astatine the ceremony

Other attendees connected Sunday volition see Ant & Dec, Claudia Winkleman, Daisy May Cooper, Greg Davies, Sharon Horgan and Susanna Reid.

David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Dame Harriet Walter, Dannii Minogue, Danny Dyer, Golda Rosheuvel, Adrian Lester, Motsi Mabuse, Oti Mabuse, Rebecca Ferguson and Roisin Conaty volition each contiguous prizes.

Best daytime controversy

There was immoderate contention astir the champion daytime category, aft writer and erstwhile Pointless co-host Richard Osman criticised the tiny fig of nominees.

Just 3 shows are nominated for champion daytime, including 1 - The Repair Shop's royal peculiar - which aired astatine 20:00.

"Daytime TV punches acold supra its value successful presumption of ratings, outgo and popularity," Osman wrote connected Twitter. "To person lone 2 daytime shows connected this database is simply a spot of a footwear successful the teeth for producers.

"If I made Bridge Of Lies, Homes Under The Hammer, Come Dine With Me, Lingo etc. I deliberation I'd consciousness robbed. Why fuss having the category?"

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Osman, pictured with woman Ingrid Oliver astatine past year's TV Baftas, criticised the sparseness of the daytime category

Osman said TV tin beryllium a "snobbish manufacture sometimes", adding: "I emotion each 3 of those nominated shows (but the superb Repair Shop was connected astatine 8pm)."

A Bafta spokesperson told BBC News having 3 information slots is mean signifier for categories with less than 20 submissions, adding The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit "was deemed eligible by Bafta's TV committee due to the fact that it was primitively commissioned by Daytime and for its measurement of output arsenic a series".

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